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12 December 2010

Triple-Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

It's Christmas at KitchenLab - the very first one!

First off, you might notice that KitchenLab has a new look. It's a little early Christmas present for my blog, which is almost one year old. That new header/logo up top is fancy. I made it myself (proud Kristen beams and hugs laptop). Also, please enjoy the festive holiday background. My PhD supervisor has me learning a few web design tricks (which are useful for lab things) so I'm applying them, judiciously, to my other little habit here in cyberspace. I actually edited my own HTML. It was scary, but I lived.

Secondly, Christmas is coming soon, which can only mean that my kitchen has exploded with cookies. Holy smokes! So far, I have made 5 6 kinds of cookies, totalling approximately 300 of the little buggers. They are supposed to be for gifts, and not for putting into my face, but I am having troubles. Especially with this one in particular. They are big and soft and full of deliciousness - but have oats and fresh fruit in them, so they can't be that bad for you, right??

9 comments:

Hey there! I stumbled upon your blog through Tastespotting and just wanted to leave a brief note 'cause these cookies look fantastic and I hope that, next time I have a stretch to bake, I can bake a batch up! ^_^

I just made these cookies for a family dinner tonight and my mother snuck a taste (to make sure it held up to the meal she's preparing :). As I am typing she will not stop asking me for the recipe or nibbling on the cookie platter. I added orange zest (1 small orange) and 1/4 cup ground almonds (or any nut you like) for exture texture. They came out great!! Thank you!

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The aim of KitchenLab is to create a nice, searchable database of what I do in the kitchen. (See that box up top? Like heaven...) I can never seem to remember what I cook, and each trip to the kitchen yields a new result. I rarely make the same thing twice, and even if I do, it's tough to remember exactly what I did the first time that made it so darn special and worthy of repetition. So, I suppose it speaks to the scientist in me to want to collect some proper data and run an experiment such as this. KitchenLab is born!